How technologies can help restaurants improve efficiency Intro/Literature Review/practical implications/research gap

To help you understand how academic research can be applied to real-world problems and to prepare you to better understand your chosen area of interest, you will be asked to write a 5-page research paper. This paper has two purposes: 1) to examine the stream of research in your given area and 2) to understand the practical implications from academic research.

Please note you are required to have a title page for this assignment. The title page should have a title for the paper, your name, the name of the class, and my name. All of this should be spelled correctly. Just like with the references, points will not be given for the title page but will be deducted if the title page is missing or something is not spelled correctly.

Format

Your paper should broken down into the following sections with the headings in italics. The subheadings should be in bold. All headings should be on the left. The paper should be written in 12 point, Times New Roman, and double spaced. The paper needs to follow APA formatting for citations. The references page is NOT a part of the 5 pages. The paper needs to be 5 pages of text with a page break to start the reference section.

Introduction

1-2 paragraphs that do the following:

• Define the segment of the industry you are studying and describe a brief history of this segment.
• Introduce the main topics of research you have found related to your segment with in-text citations. Remember, if it didn’t come out of your brain, it needs a citation.

Literature Review

This section will be the bulk of the paper. Each student’s paper will be uniquely formatted to different areas of inquiry. This will be the corrected version of homework assignment 2 and the rough draft. A literature review is a long summary of articles related to the area that is being investigated. The purpose of the literature review you are writing for this class is to organize the articles you found last week (and any additional articles that are needed) in order by category. The categories are determined by the main topics of the articles. Then, in each category, you will summarize the research. These summaries must be in your own words. You cannot use any quotations. You must put, in common words, the topic of the research and the findings with citations. Essentially, every sentence should have a citation. Please keep in mind the following for your sections:

• This is a summary of the research sorted by topic. Therefore, you should have subsections with headings to state the subtopic. For example, if you are doing research on Airbnb, a common topic of research is the impact of Airbnb on hotels, therefore a heading would be:

Airbnb’s Impact on Hotels

• The number of subtopics will be determined by the subject, however a good guideline would be 4-6 subtopics. Each subtopic will be a summary of the articles regarding that topic and should have multiple articles. Follow the formatting of summary provided in the class and on Homework Assignment 2.
• The summaries need to be written in the third person. Avoid phrase like “I think” or “I read.”
• The summaries need to be written in complete paragraphs with transition sentences. Grammar, spelling, word usage, and proper English are all expected.

Gaps in the literature

This will be the final part of the paper. This section should describe areas that have not been explored by the researchers. To determine what still needs to be studied, you will use the following:

• The limitations and future research sections of the articles you reviewed. In this, they discuss things that need to be researched later on. However, you may find some of these have already been researched.
• News articles from the last year that detail innovations in the industry that have not been explored by the research you found.

Practical Implications

This section will be a summary of the practical implications from the research articles you reviewed. As a reminder, the practical implications are the recommendations for industry that arise from the research. This section should do as follows:

• Provide a 2-3 paragraph summary of the practical implications immediately after the heading. This should describe the practical implications by section. You may write more than 2-3 paragraphs but you may find that there is an overlap in the practical implications by subtopic.
• A table that provides the practical implications by article. This can be taken from your rough draft.

Attached are sources, all 25 need to be used. If more is needed, more sources can be used. A sample is provided for the format.